Convergent Evolution or Intelligent Design? 1 -- Science Disproves Evolution

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When the same complex capability is found in unrelated organisms but not in their alleged evolutionary ancestors, evolutionists say that a common need caused identical complexities to evolve. They call this convergent evolution.

For example, wings and flight occur in some birds, insects, and mammals (bats). Pterosaurs, an extinct reptile, also had wings and could fly. These capabilities have not been found in any of their alleged common ancestors. Other examples of convergent evolution are the three tiny bones in the ears of mammals: the stapes, incus, and malleus. Their complex arrangement and precise fit give mammals the unique ability to hear a wide range of sounds. Evolutionists say that those bones evolved from bones in a reptile�s jaw. If so, the process must have occurred at least twice (a)�but left no known transitional fossils. How did the transitional organisms between reptiles and mammals hear during those millions of years (b)? Without the ability to hear, survival�and reptile-to-mammal evolution�would cease.

Concluding that a miracle�or any extremely unlikely event�happened once requires strong evidence or faith; claiming that a similar �miracle� happened repeatedly requires either incredible blind faith or a cause common to each event, such as a common designer.

a. �...the definitive mammalian middle ear evolved independently in living monotremes and therians (marsupials and placentals).� Thomas H. Rich et al., �Independent Origins of Middle Ear Bones in Monotremes and Therians,� Science, Vol. 307, 11 February 2005, p. 910.

�Because of the complexity of the bone arrangement, some scientists have argued that the innovation arose just once�in a common ancestor of the three mammalian groups. Now, analyses of a jawbone from a specimen of Teinolophos trusleri, a shrew-size creature that lived in Australia about 115 million years ago, have dealt a blow to that notion.� Sid Perkins, �Groovy Bones,� Science News, Vol. 167, 12 February 2005, p. 100.

b. Also, for mammals to hear also requires the organ of Corti and complex �wiring� in the brain. No known reptile (the supposed ancestor of mammals), living or fossil, has anything resembling this amazing organ.